Sorry Pamela, it's in Myrtle Beach SC. I've just checked into the hotel. The room is bigger than my entire apartment. there is an IN ROOM laundry room, a thing I think is a kitchen, a formal dining table that seats EIGHT not to mention the bar and the tv area with a huge couch and two armchairs.

Quick, go out and buy a plant to establish your rights as a squatter and STAY. Your room sounds delicious, especially if there's someone else who cleans that kitchen. Hmm.... might need to start calculating mortgage payments for house I have to clean MYSELF versus swank hotel room that SOMEONE ELSE cleans.

So it was like winning the query lottery, then. Which was almost as awesome. As phenomenal as QueryShark is, it's no substitute for having Janet ask you, point blank: "So what's the problem?" or "Who's the bad guy?" in person when she hears yours out loud. It helped immensely.

Y'all don't hate me for it, but I was one of the FORTUNATE ONES who met Janet in Myrtle Beach. I have shaken the fin--err--hand--of THE SHARK. (No, I wil not be auctioning my hand on Ebay.)I learned a ton during Friday afternoon's session on social networking and the query/synopsis workshop on Sunday. She might not make it to Crime Bake, though. I think she's holed up in that hotel suite.

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